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SUMMARY:Capitalism Documentary Episode 6
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism: A Six Part Documentary\nEpisode Six: Karl Polanyi\, The Human Factor\n \nMonday\, October 22nd\n6:30 PM -8:30 PM\nShelton Hall\, Oakland Peace Center\n111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\nFree\, no RSVP needed.\nPlease bring snacks to share if you are able. \n6:30PM – Introduction\n6:40 PM – Film Screening (each episode is about 50 minutes long)\n7:40 PM – Discussion\n8:30 PM – Closing \nThe economic system of capitalism has undermined democracies throughout the world\, created huge income disparities\, wrecked our ecosystem and isolated us from our own communities. Yet very few people truly understand its roots. \nThis six-part documentary series from Icarus Films is an ambitious but accessible series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world. Featuring interviews with some of the world’s great historians\, economist\, anthropologists and social critics (including Noam Chomsky\, Thomas Piketty and more)\, CAPITALISM questions the myth of the unfettered free market\, explores the nature of debt and commodities\, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years. \nIf we are going to challenge our current system\, we first need to understand it. Join us\, each Monday for a FREE screening and informal discussion. Please bring food to share for a collective potluck meal!! \nAll screenings will be inside Shelton Hall at the Oakland Peace Center. \nFacebook event can be found here. \nMonday\, 9/17 – Episode One: Adam Smith\, The Birth of the Free Market – Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out in The Wealth of Nations. Indeed\, it predates Smith by centuries\, and is rooted in the predatory practices of colonialism and the slave trade. \nMonday\, 9/24 – Episode Two: The Wealth of Nations: A New Gospel? – Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten\, leading to tragic distortions that have shaped our global economic system. \nMonday\, 10/1 – Episode Three: Ricardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom? – The roots of today’s global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malthus. Together\, they would restructure society in the image of the market. \nMonday\, 10/8 – Episode Four: What If Marx Was Right? – Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of his critique of how capitalism works – a critique that is as relevant and penetrating as ever? \nMonday\, 10/15 – Episode Five: Keynes vs. Hayek: A Fake Debate? – The ideological divide between the philosophies of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek has dominated economics for nearly a century. Is it time for the pendulum to swing back to Keynes? Or do we need a whole new approach that goes beyond this simple dualism? \nMonday\, 10/22 – Episode Six: Karl Polanyi\, The Human Factor – An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi\, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodification of labour and money ultimately be as disastrous as floods\, drought and earthquakes? \n
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LOCATION:111 Fairmount Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
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